Still working on this like some sort of masochist. :-) (Hyper-rough. Must run more spell-check... Although I am beginning to believe that they just have Gobber speaking bad French for humorous purposes. He just uses whatever verb he damn well pleases and devil take the hindmost adjective...)

Still can't figure out the sense of [Ou nous en moins bout,] in Scene 2. That's what I'm hearing, but I suspect it might be meaningless. 0_0 (It should come out to mean something roughly like "either we end them [or they'll kill us]" but...yeah.) Stoick and Gobber are a hellish nightmare; they roll their R's so hard and speak so fast they add extra syllables and new exciting vowels I never heard before.

All right, so I'm going to turn my weird obsessive nature to something productive and educational and possibly important in my near future.

I think I'm going to attempt to transcribe the French dub of "How to Train Your Dragon." (I've seen these for Miyazaki films -- or did, back before they were all available on DVD, but I couldn't find one for "Dragon" when I wanted it -- the subtitles do not match what the characters are saying at ALL -- and there are still bits and pieces that I can't quite figure out, and some bits where I just can't make out the words. And I haven't actually practiced writing since... 1992, or something. So. Yes.)

I'll tag these entries "to whom it might interest" and put them under LJ cuts. But if anyone is interested and can help, I'd appreciate orthography corrections?

I'm going to do a thing this year. Since my resolution to not buy any books in 2009 (but to freaking read the ones that are already piled up across my floor and blocking my access to BED) died a grisly and humorous death on or about January 2, I've decided that...that's just not feasible. (I will try the "Co-opt Lent" thing again, though. It worked wonderfully last year.)